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Bitter Honeydew
(Hardcover)
Kirill Golovchenko; Introduction by Christian Caujolle
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Golovchenko depicts the lives of those who run roadside stalls in
Ukraine where they sell fruit according to season. The merchants,
many of them coming from Azerbaijan and Georgia, mix with locals
and live close to their makeshift emporiums in tents and trailers.
Golovchenko s images talk about his compassion for these uprooted
people, about the bitterness in their lives."
Set in the grounds of Windsor Castle, The Royal Windsor Horse Show
and Windsor Castle Royal Tattoo is a quintessentially British event
on a truly international scale. It is the UK's largest outdoor show
and features international competitions in four different
equestrian disciplines. It also encompasses military displays
involving The King's Troop and The Household Cavalry, as well as
various other regiments from the British Army, Navy and Air Force.
Visiting troupes have also participated, including the legendary
French Foreign Legion. The Queen alternates her more formal duties
in the Royal Box of the temporary arena with informal visits to
members of the regiments, as well as inspections. She is also to be
seen walking between the many different events that are spread
throughout the grounds of the castle - her 'backyard'. Leading
British photographers Anderson Low look behind the scenes during
this very special week of events, to reveal the remarkably informal
and intimate relationship between participants, horse-breeders,
support staff and the general public. The resultant images present
a superb kaleidoscope of portraits - intimate, truthful character
studies of the participants, and of the uniquely magical setting in
which this annual pageant unfolds.
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Hartas
(Paperback)
Pablo Ortiz Monasterio
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Between 2016 and 2018 Pablo Ortiz Monasterio visited the city of
Buenos Aires in Argentina three times. Observing how the "Me too"
movement was gaining strength not only in the United States, but
also throughout Latin America, Ortiz Monasterio witnesses the
power, latent and at the same time palpable, of the women of the
city. Women, he says, who step strong and portrayed in this small
book of a great moment, represent the forcefulness of the
affectsthat lead the feminist movements that fight and work for a
fairer future.
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Brother Sister
(Hardcover)
Elin Hoyland; Gaute Heivoll
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'Brother|Sister' tells the story of Edvard and Bergit Bjelland who
grew up with their parents and siblings on a small farm in a remote
part of Norway on the south-west coast. The farmhouse itself dated
back to 1800s and is now a listed building. Edvard was the fourth
generation of his family to have owned the farm and had kept
horses, cows, pigs, hens and over one hundred sheep. When Elin
Hoyland first met him, his sister Berjit had recently died, most of
the livestock had been sold off and the land rented out. He now
lived alone looking after just a handful of sheep. Edvard had been
the only one to stay on the homestead, though his sister Bergit
eventually moved back into the farnhouse with him, after living
several years in the city of Stavanger. In the late 1970s she moved
out again, but this time to a new house that she had built just a
stone's throw from her childhood home. Bergit died in 2011 and
Edvard now looks after her house. This is a story of two very
different lives, lived within a matter of yards of each other.
Whilst the physical distance separating Edvard and Bergit may have
been minimal, their emotional and lifestyle choices are so far
apart. Through her photographs Hoyland explores these choices, the
different dreams and needs that the brother and sister sought to
fulfill, whilst award winning Norwegian novelist and poet, Gaute
Heivoll provides a short fictional piece inspired by the images.
The collaboration is both absorbing and moving.
Through images taken by Rasmussen across dozens of states-
introducing him to hundreds of people along the way-and essays by
renowned legal scholar Frank H. Wu, the book seeks to provoke
thought and conversation around the complicated nature of American
identity. 'The Good Citizen does not pretend to provide answers,'
says Rasmussen,"This is not a polemic, a textbook or a political
tract. Rather, it is a series of images and essays that seek to
provoke thought and conversation around the complicated nature of
American identity.'
Eijkelboom's work is always about the relationship between the
individual and the mass mass both in the sense of a lot of people,
and of everything we encounter on a daily basis, and which we are
part of. A world to which we must relate if we are to live in it."
Celebrate the kings of the canine world with this collection of
photographs and information by award-winning author and wildlife
photographer Stan Tekiela. Their beauty strikes us. Their mystique
enchants us. Wolves, coyotes, and foxes are beloved, appreciated,
and misunderstood. A sighting in nature is rare, which serves to
enhance our fascination with these magnificent animals.
Award-winning author, naturalist, and wildlife photographer Stan
Tekiela believes that wolves, coyotes, and foxes are mystical and
elusive. He spent more than 20 years traveling across the United
States and Canada to observe and photograph the various species,
from Gray Wolves and Arctic Foxes to Coyotes and Red Wolves. He
documented every aspect of the canines' secret lives: major events
such as mating, as well as everyday activities including hunting,
playing, and socializing. The result is a striking portrayal of
these mammals in Wolves, Coyotes & Foxes. Stan's extraordinary
photographs depict the creatures in a new, unique fashion. His
fascinating text, drawn from detailed research and personal
observations, provides information about every aspect of their
lives. Presented with headings and short paragraphs, the
coffee-table book is pleasurable to browse and easy to read. "Their
presence commands respect and attention," says Stan. "They are
nature's perfect model of a family." Unmatched by any other book on
the market, Wolves, Coyotes & Foxes is a must-have for lovers
of wildlife and nature.
These photographs are not about the t-shirt per se. The messages
are combinations of pictures and words that reveal much about the
identity of the wearer. They tell who these people are and who they
aren't, who they want to be and what they want us to know about
them. They advertise their hopes, ideals, political views, and
personal mantras.
Begun in 2009, "TEE" has taken Susan Barnett to cities and
tourist spots throughout the United States and Europe to record the
ever-changing messages.
The fascination we have as humans with our ability to do evil,
witness the evidence of horror and stare fixedly at photographic,
filmic or artefacts connected with death, is at the heart of the
phenomenon known as 'Dark Tourism'. These images are about much
more than tourism and the visiting of such sites, they challenge
the nature of our behaviour, our history and our societies'
relationship with evil and mortality. They are a testament to our
past, to our inability to move beyond it and our curious
relationship with tragedy and death." - from the introduction by
J.J. Lennon Ambroise Tezenas has visited over a dozen major sites
of dark tourism across the world - from Cambodia to Rwanda, Lebanon
to Lithuania, Ukraine to the United States. These are sites
developed for tourism and linked to death, assassination,
incarceration, mass killing and tragedy. Yet dark tourism is not a
new phenomenon and similar sites have attracted human interest for
many years. From the gladiatorial combats of ancient Rome through
to attendance at public executions in London of the 1600s, it seems
that death and disaster have maintained a lasting appeal.
As a small boy, John Comino-James stood in school cap and Sunday
suit to have his snapshot taken under flags put up for Queen
Elizabeth's Coronation. The resultant photograph resonates with an
England long since disappeared, yet still fertile in the
imagination. That sense of how that England has changed is the
focus in John Comino-James' new book as he explores our everyday
landscape of sign and symbol, from roadside verge to traffic-free
shopping centre, to high-rise cityscapes. Art is in action ahead,
and with a friendly corporate Hello, we are offered No Deposit
Deals on Half Price Dreams. We are thanked for shopping, and
offered free cash withdrawals. A Money Shop is at hand and
woodlands are for sale - just visit the website. If we drop litter
CCTV may catch us, and we are warned that if we leave something
valuable on show in our car we can expect it to be stolen.
Reminders of the valour and necessity, the sacrifices, the folly
and the tragedy of war are never far away. Earthquakes may strike,
stores may close but we can still buy artisan ice-cream. But if
opportunity is the moment you have been looking for, where is
salvation to be found if not in moments of direct relationship with
others?
'Mother and Father', is a moving journal of the final years of a
sixty-year marriage. For ten years, from 1997 to 2007 Paddy
Summerfield photographed his parents, reflecting on the bond
between them, which even the effects of Alzheimers could not break.
They become symbols in a drama of balance and tension, which is
both domestic and epic. As he says: "I recorded my mother's loss of
the world, my father's loss of his wife and, eventually, my loss of
them both." The images are primarily taken in their garden, though
the central section shows holiday visits to the Welsh coast, where
the raven, a Celtic symbol of death, frequently appears alongside
their world. Finally, the once cultivated garden becomes a
neglected wilderness, in the absence of the two people who spent
long days there, who cared for it, and for each other. These
thoughtful, often melancholy, images form a personal piece which is
simultaneously universal.
"We must remember that in the brutality of battle another such
apocalypse is always just around the corner." -Sebastiao Salgado In
January and February 1991, as the United States-led coalition drove
Iraqi forces out of Kuwait, Saddam Hussein's troops retaliated with
an inferno. At some 700 oil wells and an unspecified number of
oil-filled low-lying areas they ignited vast, raging fires,
creating one of the worst environmental disasters in living memory.
As the desperate efforts to contain and extinguish the
conflagration progressed, Sebastiao Salgado traveled to Kuwait to
witness the crisis firsthand. The conditions were excruciating. The
heat was so vicious that Salgado's smallest lens warped. A
journalist and another photographer were killed when a slick
ignited as they crossed it. Sticking close to the firefighters, and
with characteristic sensitivity to both human and environmental
impact, Salgado captured the terrifying scale of this "huge theater
the size of the planet": the ravaged landscape; the sweltering
temperatures; the air choking on charred sand and soot; the
blistered remains of camels; the sand still littered with cluster
bombs; and the flames and smoke soaring to the skies, blocking out
the sunlight, dwarfing the oil-coated firefighters. Salgado's epic
pictures first appeared in the New York Times Magazine in June 1991
and were subsequently awarded the Oskar Barnack Award, recognizing
outstanding images on the relationship between man and the
environment. Kuwait: A Desert on Fire is the first monograph of
this astonishing series. Like Genesis, Exodus, and The Children, it
is as much a major document of modern history as an extraordinary
body of photographic work.
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Toy Soldiers
(Hardcover)
Simon Brann Thorpe
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In Toy Soldiers, Simon Brann Thorpe blurs the boundaries between
document, landscape and concept-based photography to explore this
conflict. He examines the impact and potential consequences of the
stalemate. Through real soldiers - posed as toy soldiers - he
reveals the current situation in Western Sahara, a nation in
waiting trapped in an historic cycle of colonial conflict,
displacement and endless non-resolution. The work is a unique
collaboration between Thorpe, a military commander and the men
under his command. Shot entirely on location in the isolated and
hauntingly beautiful territory known as 'Liberated Western Sahara'
it is influenced by the historic works of photographers such as
Mathew Brady, Roger Fenton and Edward Curtis. Toy Soldiers provides
a contemporary archive on the issue of non-resolution and the
paradigm of post colonial cycles of violence within modern
conflicts.
Swiss artist Meret Oppenheim (1913–1985) is far more than just
the creator of the iconic fur teacup. In the course of her career
she produced a complex, wide-ranging, and enigmatic body of work
that has no parallel in modern art. Like an x-ray beam, this book
scans Oppenheim’s artistic oeuvre, bringing its variety,
playfulness, and poetry to the fore. Instead of simply answering
the riddles posed by these intriguing works, it maps out the paths
that will lead us to still more clues. Simon Baur is a leading
expert in the life and art of Meret Oppenheim. The nine new essays
featured in this volume are at once scholarly and easy to read. In
them, Baur shares the many fascinating insights and interpretations
that he has gleaned from his decades-long engagement with
Oppenheim’s work. The result is an anthology that combines both
biographical and thematic aspects and takes us on an exciting
journey into the poetic cosmos of a truly great female artist.
'The Gardener', is the winning project of the inaugural Syngenta
Photography Award. Photographed by Jan Brykczynski, it is an
extension of his previous projects in which he travelled to the
outer corners of Europe to explore the lives of people in rural
areas. This new work looks at how city dwellers try to connect with
nature. The book documents urban gardens in Nairobi, New York,
Warsaw, and Yerevan in Armenia. Jan Brykczynski approaches it as if
the world were a single village, whose inhabitants seek to meet
similar, and very human, needs. His focus is on low-income
communities where people respond to a basic need rather than any
passing fad. When they create their gardens, improvisation is all.
The residents of these neighbourhoods make use of what is available
- often re-using materials entirely out of context and in truly
original ways. His particular interest is the way in which these
spaces are arranged and in how structures for cultivation are
created spontaneously. In some places these are an expression of
group collaboration, in others they highlight individual
imagination and the inventiveness of their creators. Yet there are
surprising similarities across different continents, evidencing a
collective consciousness and a common humanity.
On 31st January 2020, Newcastle Hospitals became the first hospital
in the UK to receive patients suffering from a new illness -
Covid-19. At the time Tom Warburton was a senior director at
Newcastle City Council and was directly involved in organising many
of the city's responses to the Covid pandemic. As a keen amateur
photographer, he knew he would be in a unique position to try and
make a photographic record of the pandemic's effect on Newcastle
and its people during one of the most difficult periods in recent
history. Over the next two years, and with controlled access to
some of the most sensitive and strategic areas of the battle
against the virus, Tom recorded both the sadness and desperation as
well as the achievements and sacrifices of those in the frontline
fight against the pandemic. Tom's photographs will serve as an
important historical reminder of one of the most significant and
strange times in Newcastle's history and as a fitting tribute to
those who took risks to help others and provide life-saving
services. A proportion of the book's sales revenue will go to
Newcastle Hospitals Charity and West End Food Bank.
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Dear Ana
(Hardcover)
Leticia Valverdes; Text written by Angela Ferreira, Octavia Bright; Designed by Billie Temple
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A lyrical manifestation of Leticia Valverdes' award-winning project
that took her on a journey back to Portugal, her grandmother's
motherland. This extraordinary project resulted in a magical
collaboration with the inhabitants of Ana's birthplace, the village
of Mundao. By inviting the villagers to write a postcard to her now
dead grandmother, they became the fictional friends she believed
she had whilst dying with Alzheimer's disease in Brazil. Through
photography interspersed with poetic text, cyanotypes and votive
offerings, this is a personal yet universal story exploring
transgenerational trauma, longing, migration, and what it means to
feel divided between two cultures. A hundred years on, this is the
perfect time to tell this story, as Europe is engulfed in debates
about borders, nationalism and migration.
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